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Medical Training Can Reinforce Racial Bias
Racial disparities are rampant in healthcare. In addition to structural inequalities, the issues are partly due to racial bias among healthcare workers. These biases stem, in part, from the way race is presented in medical curricula.
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Some Good News in Alzheimer's Treatments
The surprising approval of the extremely expensive and maybe not that effective drug Aduhelm has been dominating the conversation around Alzheimer's treatments in recent memory. Today, we're getting positive and talking about a very...
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Climate Change Is Already Impacting Our Health
Massive storms, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, air pollution, increased rates of disease, changes to our food and water… global warming, and the changes to climate that come with it, are increasing human health risks. Our physical and...
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Fraud and Dysfunction in American Healthcare: The 2022 Shkreli Awards
The 2022 Shkreli Awards have been released! Each year, the Lown Institute passes out awards as a way of reporting on dysfunction in the US health care system. Dysfunction in healthcare is one of our foundational pillars here at...
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Ticks, Mosquitos, and How Climate Change Could Increase Disease
We’re back again with another episode on climate change and human health. The effects of a warming planet on our wellbeing are multifaceted, and there’s a lot to address in these complex interactions. One of those things is an increase...
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Climate Change and Safe Drinking Water
In our last climate episode we took a look at how climate change affects the spread of infectious disease. Unfortunately, that isn’t the end of our discussion of disease on a warming planet. Waterborne diseases are already a serious...
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Robert Kennedy, Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccine Testing
RFK Jr. is claiming that scientists do not test vaccines with placebo-controlled trials, specifically against a saline placebo, and that all he’s asking for is that they are tested this way, as all other medicines are. On its face alone,...
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Misinformation About Health Is Nothing New
Misinformation. A recent and major problem facing us all, and one that is pervasive in many realms including medicine and healthcare, which are, of course, favorite realms around here. But is all this stuff recent? Is misinformation a...
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The Drug Shortage Putting Newborns at Risk
For some women, a simple shot during pregnancy and then right after labor can prevent a huge amount of suffering for both parents and future children. So what happens when there’s a shortage that prevents that shot from happening?
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Winter Woes: Understanding and Avoiding Seasonal Viruses
Discover how common winter illnesses like the cold, flu, and gastroenteritis spread and impact us during the colder months. Through expert insights and visual experiments, learn the nature of viruses, transmission methods, and practical...
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Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Fundamentals of Chatbots for Deep Learning: Chatbots in the Medical Domain
We will explore the first kind of chatbot operating in the medical domain. We will look at the benefits, including the ability to schedule appointments, check patient symptoms, provide support, help with coverage and insurance claims,...
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Why Endometriosis Patients Keep Getting Gaslit
It’s not “just cramps”, pregnancy will not cure the disease, and yes (sigh)...even teens can get it. People with endometriosis keep getting gaslit. Why is their pain being dismissed? Alok and Sheena talk about how the healthcare system...
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A Blood Test That Can Diagnose Depression?
Did you know there’s a blood test that can detect your risk of depression? why aren’t we using it? Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, with 1 in every 6 adults experiencing it at some point in their lives. And...
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Kids and the COVID Vaccine: Everything You Need to Know
Now that children are back in school, they could be bringing home COVID-19 along with their homework. A vaccine could change that. Alok and Sheena explain the vaccine development process and address key issues and questions that are...
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The Eradication of Smallpox: A Triumph of Medicine and Collaboration
This video provides a brief history of smallpox, highlighting the efforts of ancient civilizations and the breakthrough discovery by Edward Jenner that led to the development of a smallpox vaccine. It also discusses the global initiative...
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Nano-bots to Cure Cancer?
You may have heard of nano-robots, but are these really “robots” (like Transformers), or are they something completely different? Professor Stoyan Smoukov shows us how nano-scale devices can be easily ‘grown’ from simple sources and how...
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The Native American People
Dr. Forrester explains that the story of Native Americans is the beginning of American History. She creates a KWL chart and researches information about Native Americans.
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Endangered and Extinct
Dr. Forrester explains how humans have had one of the most significant impacts on the environment.
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Why Does Rabies Cause Hyrdophobia?
The hydrophobia (fear of water) is brought on by the extreme pain of swallowing liquids, not just water. The rabies virus causes intense muscle spasms in the throat that are excruciating, so much so that even the thought of swallowing...
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Introduction to Juvenile Diabetes and Diagnosis
This video details one family's alarming experience when their daughter Sierra's flu-like symptoms escalated into a severe and life-threatening condition, leading to her diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes after being admitted to the hospital...
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British Wildlife: Red Squirrels
Red squirrels inhabit coniferous forests and deciduous woodlands in Scotland, Northumberland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Lake District. The Red Squirrel is the UK’s only native species of squirrel, and was once common across the...
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Life in the Colonies: Indigenous Communities
The arrival of Europeans and creation of the 13 colonies led to immense challenges and profound changes for Indigenous peoples.
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Building the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a vital trade route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Its fascinating story goes back hundreds of years.